On Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 2:19 PM, Louis-Martin Gagne <[email protected]>
 wrote:

> What is the best practice when it comes to storing dates?
> Find a way to comply to the ISO-8601 (which isn't straightforward) or to
> store this as a long value (eg. getTime()). Thoughts??
>


Store as a long value.

If you need to export the date to a human readable format, you can convert
using  java.text.DateFormat
<http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/text/DateFormat.html> within
the client. Transferring and storing dates as Strings often leads to
difficulty and confusion.


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-Vinny P
Technology & Media Consultant
Chicago, IL

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